MediumSigmaHQ Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)

Add Debugger Entry To AeDebug For Persistence

Detects when an attacker adds a new "Debugger" value to the "AeDebug" key in order to achieve persistence which will get invoked when an application crashes

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Log source product: windows
Log source category: registry_set

Known benign triggers

Legitimate use of the key to setup a debugger. Which is often the case on developers machines

References

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Reference	Class	Cited by
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/configuring-automatic-debugging	Product documentation	Only this detection cites it
persistence-info.github.io/Data/aedebug.html	Unclassified	Only this detection cites it

Detection rules

Add Debugger Entry To AeDebug For Persistence

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Known benign triggers

MITRE ATT&CK mappings

References

From the source

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Detection rules